Jaipur: The city’s Comprehensive Mobility Plan (CMP) 2055 has come under scrutiny from a section of govt town planners, days after concerns were raised over the city’s Master Plan 2047.Officials and planners have flagged what they call major gaps in the draft CMP, particularly its reliance on the area covered under Master Plan 2025 instead of the proposed Master Plan 2047.“All the bus and metro corridors and infrastructure projects proposed in the CMP 2055 cover areas under Master Plan 2025. JDA has already notified to double its area and will adopt a Master Plan by 2027 for 2047. However, in the CMP there are hardly any proposals related to infrastructure in areas those would get added under the Master Plan 2047,” a senior town planner of the Urban Development and Housing (UDH) department said.Experts said the CMP is effectively an extension of the master plan, with a detailed focus on transport systems and related infrastructure. That has prompted some planners to question how the same agency can prepare two plans based on different geographical boundaries. Transport planners and experts have also objected to the decision to frame the CMP for 30 years instead of the usual 20, alleging that the longer timeline may have been chosen to make major infrastructure proposals, including metro corridors, appear more viable. “It is considered that a metro corridor is viable if feasibility report assesses that a corridor can handle 15,000 peak hour peak direction traffic (PHPDT). The estimated PHPDT for Tonk Road corridor—considered to be most viable—is around 11,000 PHPDT in 30 years. Imagine, the condition of other proposed infrastructure,” another town planner said.Some UDH department officials have also raised concerns over the state govt’s proposal to create a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV), on the lines of the Smart City model, to implement CMP projects.“The decision means formation of one more agency to interfere with the city’s transport infrastructure,” another official said.
